gnupg takes a lot of time on Intel

Has anyone else tried to build the gnupg port (from Darwin Ports 1.3.2) on
an Intel duo core machine? I've got the an Intel Mac with two cores and
XCode 2.2.1 installed. So far it is taking over 24 minutes to build (I
merely did a "# port install gnupg" with no verbose debugging output and
what I see on the terminal is "--->  Configuring gnupg" but when I ssh into
the Mac and run top, I am seeing this:

  PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
17734 i686-apple  99.5% 24:18.91   1    13    17   144K   580K   496K  30.8M
17733 gcc-4.0      0.0%  0:00.00   1    13    16   112K   484K   348K  26.6M

gcc 4.0 from Apple appears not to be running but the i686-apple command is
certainly churning away on something. My notes from building gnupg on a G4
PowerPC says that gnupg should only take about 5 minutes to install.

Is it possible that gcc from Apple via XCode 2.2.1 on Intel might be having
some complex problem? How long should I wait before control-c to break it?
This could be a good reason to switch to XCode 2.4 but I'm not confident
that it would necessarily not cause other problems.

Best regards,

T.